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Dell EMC Networking OS10 Enterprise Edition
Deployment Guide with Cisco ACI
Abstract
This document provides steps for the configuration and deployment of
Dell EMC Networking switches running Dell EMC OS10 Enterprise
Edition, into a Cisco ACI environment.
December 2018
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Initial release
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Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Typographical conventions ................................................................................................................................. 5
1.2 Attachments ........................................................................................................................................................ 6
2 Hardware overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON ..................................................................................................................... 7
2.2 Dell EMC Networking S4148F-ON ..................................................................................................................... 7
2.3 Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON ....................................................................................................................... 7
2.4 Cisco Nexus C93180YC-EX ............................................................................................................................... 8
2.5 Cisco Nexus C9336-PQ ..................................................................................................................................... 8
2.6 Supported Dell EMC switches ............................................................................................................................ 8
3 Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) .............................................................................................................. 9
4 Dell EMC ToR switches with Cisco ACI environment overview ................................................................................. 10
4.1 Validated environment ...................................................................................................................................... 11
5 OOB Management network ........................................................................................................................................ 13
6 Cisco APIC configuration ........................................................................................................................................... 15
7 Configure S5248F-ON switches ................................................................................................................................. 17
7.1 OOB management configuration ...................................................................................................................... 17
7.2 VLT configuration.............................................................................................................................................. 17
7.3 Configure the VLANs ........................................................................................................................................ 18
7.4 Server-facing configuration ............................................................................................................................... 19
7.5 Switch pair uplink configuration ........................................................................................................................ 20
8 vCenter configuration overview .................................................................................................................................. 21
9 Verify configuration ..................................................................................................................................................... 23
9.1 Validation using OS10EE CLI ........................................................................................................................... 23
9.1.1 show vlt [domain-id] command ........................................................................................................................ 23
9.1.2 show vlt [domain-id] vlt-port-detail command ................................................................................................... 24
9.1.3 show interface port channel summary command ............................................................................................. 24
9.1.4 show lldp neighbors command ......................................................................................................................... 24
9.1.5 show spanning-tree brief command ................................................................................................................. 25
9.1.6 show uplink state group command ................................................................................................................... 25
9.2 Cisco ACI validation ......................................................................................................................................... 26
9.2.1 Verify vPC configuration ................................................................................................................................... 26
9.2.2 Verify physical interface configuration .............................................................................................................. 28
9.2.3 Verify ACI is learning endpoints ....................................................................................................................... 29
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9.3 Verify connectivity between VMs ...................................................................................................................... 30
A Additional information ................................................................................................................................................. 31
A.1 Reset OS10EE switches to factory defaults ..................................................................................................... 31
A.2 Spanning Tree Protocol recommendations ...................................................................................................... 31
B Validated components ................................................................................................................................................ 32
B.1 Dell EMC Networking switches ......................................................................................................................... 32
B.2 Cisco ACI components ..................................................................................................................................... 32
C Technical resources ................................................................................................................................................... 33
D Support and feedback ................................................................................................................................................ 34
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1 Introduction
Dell EMC Networking is committed to providing customers with modern data center networking technology to
be the foundation for digital transformation. Customers can choose from a wide range of industry-standard
network applications, operating systems, and hardware platforms to realize cost savings and improvement in
service agility.
This document provides an example for the deployment of a pair of top-of-rack (ToR) Dell EMC Networking
switches into an existing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) environment. The example details how
Layer 2 domains can be extended into and out of an ACI fabric with Dell EMC Networking switches in a way
that provides high throughput and failure tolerance. The example shows how devices that are connected to
Dell EMC Networking switches can be integrated with the ACI fabric to communicate with and access ACI
resources.
Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON switch
The deployment example includes instructions to configure a pair of Dell EMC S5248F-ON switches. The
example demonstrates connectivity to a pair of Cisco Nexus C93180YC-EX switches in ACI mode.
Table 1 outlines what this document is and is not.
Dell EMC Networking OS10EE Deployment Guide with Cisco ACI
This guide is
This guide is not/does not
A reference for basic configuration of a top-of-
rack (ToR) pair of switches using OS10EE
A guide for all features of OS10EE-based
switches
An example of one way to add ToR switches to
an existing Cisco ACI environment
A guide for adding Cisco ACI to a complete leaf-
spine deployment
1.1 Typographical conventions
The CLI and GUI examples in this document use the following conventions:
Monospace Text CLI examples
Underlined Monospace Text CLI examples that wrap the page
Italic Monospace Text Variables in CLI examples
Bold Monospace Text Commands entered at the CLI prompt, or to highlight information in CLI
output
Bold text UI elements and information that is entered in the GUI
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1.2 Attachments
This document in .pdf format includes one or more file attachments. To access attachments in Adobe Acrobat
Reader, click the icon in the left pane halfway down the page, and then click the icon.
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2 Hardware overview
This section briefly describes the hardware that is used to validate the deployment examples in this
document. Appendix B
contains a complete listing of hardware and software that is validated for this guide.
Note: While the steps in this document were validated using the specified Dell EMC Networking switches and
operating systems, they may be used for other Dell EMC Networking switch models using the same
networking operating system version or later assuming the switch has the available port numbers, speeds,
and types. The two switch models in this section are detailed based on being the most commonly deployed
ToR switches in the current portfolio.
2.1 Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON
The Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON is a 1-Rack Unit (RU) switch with forty-eight 25GbE SFP28 ports, two
2x100GbE QSFP28-DD ports, and four 100GbE QSFP28 ports. The high-performance S5248F-ON switch is
an optimal choice for ToR environments requiring connectivity for 10GbE and 25GbE compute and storage.
Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON switch
2.2 Dell EMC Networking S4148F-ON
The Dell EMC Networking S4148F-ON is a 1-RU switch with forty-eight 10GbE SFP+ ports, two 40GbE
QSFP+ ports, and four 100GbE QSFP28 ports. The high-performance S4148F-ON switch is an optimal
choice for ToR environments requiring connectivity for 10GbE compute and storage.
Dell EMC Networking S4148F-ON switch
2.3 Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON
The Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON is a 1-RU switch with forty-eight 1GbE BASE-T ports and four 10GbE
SFP+ ports. In this document, one S3048-ON supports out-of-band (OOB) management traffic for all
examples.
Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON
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2.4 Cisco Nexus C93180YC-EX
The Cisco Nexus C93180YC-EX switch is a 1-RU switch with forty-eight 1/10/25GbE ports and six
40/100GbE ports. A pair of Cisco Nexus C93180YC-EX switches are used as Cisco ACI leaf switches in the
demonstrated environment in this guide.
2.5 Cisco Nexus C9336-PQ
The Cisco Nexus C9336-PQ switch is a 2-RU switch with thirty-six 40GbE QSFP+ ports. One Cisco Nexus
C9336-PQ switch is used as a Cisco ACI spine switch in the demonstrated environment in this guide.
2.6 Supported Dell EMC switches
The switch models highlighted in blue in Table 2, have been validated in the lab environment that is detailed
in section 0. All Dell EMC Networking switches that run the OS10EE operating system can be used in a
similar deployment with Cisco ACI. Tested and supported features in the Cisco ACI environment include VLT
and Layer 2 operation.
Supported Dell EMC Networking switches
Dell EMC Networking Switch
OS10EE,
version 10.4.0R3 and later
S5248F-ON
Supported, validated version 10.4.2
S4148F-ON
Supported
S5048F-ON
Supported
S5148F-ON
Supported
S5296F-ON
Supported
S5232F-ON
Supported
S6010-ON
Supported
S6100-ON
Supported
S4048-ON
Supported
S4048T-ON
Supported
S4112F-ON
Supported, validated version 10.4.2
S4112T-ON
Supported
S4128F-ON
Supported
S4128T-ON
Supported
S4148T-ON
Supported
S4148FE
Supported
S4148U
Supported, validated version 10.4.2
S4248FB-ON
Supported
S4248FBL-ON
Supported
Note: Dell EMC provides this supported list as is, without express or implied warranties of any kind. This list
is for informational purposes only and may contain typographical and technical inaccuracies. Dell EMC is not
liable for any damages that arise out of or in connection with the use of the information provided in this list.
Table 2 includes only switches that are commonly deployed as ToR switches. All switch models that run
OS10EE deployed in a VLT topology in Layer 2 operation can be considered. Some switches contain
features, such as Fibre Channel, that have not been validated to work with Cisco API and is out of the scope
of this document.
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3 Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
Cisco ACI is an application focused, software-defined networking solution utilizing both software and
traditional switching hardware. The solution is an overlay on Cisco’s high-performance switches, operating in
an ACI mode managed by a controller. The Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) is a
central management appliance that handles policy, visibility, security, and overall network control for the ACI
environment.
Cisco ACI provides the following features within the ACI domain:
• Multi-tenant security
• Microsegmentation
• Application specific policy management
• Network availability and QoS
• Network automation
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4 Dell EMC ToR switches with Cisco ACI environment
overview
The example that is shown in this paper covers deploying S5248F-ON switches connected to a Cisco ACI
environment. By integrating the ToR switch pair into an ACI environment, compute resources within the rack
can use ACI gateways and access ACI resources.
The validated Cisco ACI environment includes a pair of Nexus C93180YC-EX switches as leaf switches as
shown in Figure 5. The C93180YC-EX leaf switch pair are connected to a single Nexus C9336-PQ spine
using 40GbE uplinks (not shown).
Dell EMC Networking switches connected to Cisco ACI leaf switches
Connections from S5248F-ON switches to the C93180YC-EX leaf pair are 100 GbE. These connections are
shown in blue in Figure 5.
Note: The wiring diagram in Figure 5 is drawn to show the types of connections in a carefully arranged
fashion for clarity. The port numbers and connection locations may differ in the actual deployment.
No physical peer link is used between the Cisco ACI leaf switches. See the Cisco ACI documentation for
more information.
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4.1 Validated environment
In this example, two S5248F-ON switches are joined to an existing Cisco ACI environment. The rack contains
two S5248F-ON and four PowerEdge R730xd servers.
The connections between the ACI environment and the S5248F-ON switches consist of double-sided multi-
chassis link aggregation group (MLAG). The double-sided MLAG connection consists of a vPC on the Cisco
ACI side and a VLT port channel on the S5248F-ON side.
All of the devices in the validated environment that are covered in this chapter, are connected as shown in
Figure 6.
Validated Dell EMC ToR and ACI environment
Note: No physical peer link is used between the Cisco ACI leaf switches. See the Cisco ACI documentation
for more information. Cisco recommends a minimum of three Application Policy Infrastructure Controllers
(APICs) in a production environment. For this validation effort, a single APIC, named APIC-1, is used.
All Dell EMC PowerEdge R730xd rack servers in this example are running VMware ESXi 6.7.0. VMs named
“web,” “app,” and “db” on the ESXi hosts are running Ubuntu Linux guest operating systems.
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The existing Cisco ACI environment has two PowerEdge R730xd rack servers that are directly connected to
the ACI leaf switches. These rack servers are in a VMware vSphere cluster, with a vCenter VM named
mgmtvc01 on R730xd-01 as shown in Figure 6.
Integrating the S5248F-ON switches into the Cisco ACI environment enables the four PowerEdge R730xd
servers in the rack to join the existing VMware vSphere cluster. This enables all hosts and VMs to
communicate using the relevant networks.
The in-band test environment uses the five networks that are shown in Table 3.
In-band networks used
VLAN ID
VLAN name
Description
Gateway address
1612
vMotion
VM migration
172.16.12.254
1613
vSAN
Storage
172.16.13.254
1614
web
VM data network
172.16.14.254
1615
app
VM data network
172.16.15.254
1616
db
VM data network
172.16.16.254
Note: While the VMware vSphere vMotion and vSAN networks are configured in this example, their use is out
of scope for this guide.
VMs in the validated environment use the IP addresses shown in Table 4.
VM IP addresses
VM name
VLAN name
IP address
mgmtvc01
ESXi_Mgmt
100.67.163.171
web01-web03
web
172.16.14.1-3
app01-app03
app
172.16.15.1-3
db01-db02
db
172.16.16.1-2
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5 OOB Management network
Network topological designs are not complete without a layer for management traffic. The OOB management
network is a separate network for management traffic only. Administrators use the OOB management network
to configure, manage, and monitor devices such as servers and switches. Payload traffic that is initiated by
network end users does not traverse the OOB management network. Switches used for management are
1GbE. Figure 7 demonstrates how the Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON switch may be used for this purpose.
Management network example for a single rack
Figure 7 shows an OOB management network for a single rack. More racks can be added to the same
management network. A Dell EMC Networking S3048-ON may be used to manage up to 48 devices on the
network, typically enough for a single rack of equipment. The switch may then be connected to other adjacent
management switches, or upstream to a management core.
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Figure 8 shows how the OOB management network was configured for the demonstrated environment,
alongside the connections used for in-band production traffic. There are two OOB management connections
for each server: one that is used for ESXi management and one that is used for providing connectivity to the
server iDRAC. The production in-band uplinks to the ACI environment are not shown.
OOB management network cabling alongside in-band production network
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6 Cisco APIC configuration
The Cisco APIC configuration includes the ports that are connected to the R730xd rack servers and the vPC
that connects to the S5248F-ON VLT port channel. Included are the configuration of the ACI fabric interfaces,
switches, and application-level elements such as ACI endpoint groups (EPGs) and bridge domains.
The networks that are used in the validated environment are shown in Table 5, along with the corresponding
bridge domain, and application EPG names used in APIC configuration.
Validated environment network information
VLAN
ID
VLAN name
Gateway IP
address/mask
Bridge domain name Application EPG name
1612
vMotion
172.16.12.254/24
vMotionBD1
vMotionEPG1
1613
vSAN
172.16.13.254/24
vSANBD1
vSANEPG1
1614
web
172.16.14.254/24
webBD1
webEPG1
1615
app
172.16.15.254/24
appBD1
appEPG1
1616
db
172.16.16.254/24
dbBD1
dbEPG1
In this deployment, EPGs are extended outside of the ACI fabric by mapping EPGs to external VLANs. This is
so when a frame tagged with VLAN 1611, for example, enters the ACI fabric, ACI knows that it belongs to the
ESXi Management EPG and treats it accordingly.
Bridge domains are associated with EPGs, which are mapped to external VLANs.
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APIC configuration steps that are used in the validated environment are provided in the attachment titled
OS10EE Deployment Guide - Cisco APIC configuration steps. See the Cisco ACI documentation for
detailed APIC configuration instructions.
Note: In this environment, the 100 GbE ports on the ACI leaf switches are used as downlinks to the S5248F-
ON switches. By default, the 100 GbE switch ports are designated for fabric connections, such as
connections to ACI spine switches. To use these 100 GbE switch ports for connecting to devices outside of
the ACI fabric, they must be configured as downlinks. Refer to Cisco documentation for more information.
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7 Configure S5248F-ON switches
The following section outlines the configuration commands that are issued to the Dell EMC Networking
S5248F-ON ToR switches.
7.1 OOB management configuration
The OOB port for the Dell EMC Networking S5248F-ON is mgmt 1/1/1. The following commands show
how to configure this OOB port when using OS10EE. The switches start at their factory default settings as
described in Appendix A.1
.
Note: The S5248F-ON CLI is accessible through the console port or by using SSH. The default username
and password are both admin.
OOB management configuration
S5248F-1
S5248F-2
configure terminal
hostname S5248F-1
interface mgmt 1/1/1
no ip address dhcp
no shutdown
ip address 100.67.166.33/24
management route 0.0.0.0/0
100.67.166.254
configure terminal
hostname S5248F-2
interface mgmt 1/1/1
no ip address dhcp
no shutdown
ip address 100.67.166.32/24
management route 0.0.0.0/0
100.67.166.254
Note: The configuration for the S3048-ON management switch is not shown. The configuration and
deployment of the overall management network is not within the scope of this document.
7.2 VLT configuration
In this example, configure VLT between the two Dell EMC S5248F-ON switches. VLT synchronizes Layer 2
and ARP table information between the switches and enables a single port channel to be connected to the
switch pair as if they are a single switch.
1. Set up VLT on S5248F-1 using the commands in the first column of Table 7 (recommended port
values are shown).
2. Configure S5248F-2 using the commands in column 2 provided in Table 7.
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VLT configuration
S5248F-1
S5248F-2
interface range ethernet 1/1/53-1/1/54
description VLTi
no shutdown
no switchport
vlt-domain 127
backup destination 100.67.166.32
discovery-interface ethernet 1/1/53-
1/1/54
interface range ethernet 1/1/53-1/1/54
description VLTi
no shutdown
no switchport
vlt-domain 127
backup destination 100.67.166.33
discovery-interface ethernet 1/1/53-
1/1/54
7.3 Configure the VLANs
The VLAN settings that are used during deployment for this environment are shown in Table 8.
VLAN settings
VLAN ID
VLAN name
Description
Tagged/Untagged
1612
vMotion
VM migration
Tagged
1613
vSAN
Storage
Tagged
1614
web
VM data network
Tagged
1615
app
VM data network
Tagged
1616
db
VM data network
Tagged
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VLAN configuration
S5248F-1
S5248F-2
interface vlan 1612
description vMotion
no shutdown
interface vlan 1613
description vSAN
no shutdown
interface vlan 1614
description web
no shutdown
interface vlan 1615
description app
no shutdown
interface vlan 1616
description db
no shutdown
interface vlan 1612
description vMotion
no shutdown
interface vlan 1613
description vSAN
no shutdown
interface vlan 1614
description web
no shutdown
interface vlan 1615
description app
no shutdown
interface vlan 1616
description db
no shutdown
7.4 Server-facing configuration
Configure the server-facing interfaces with the following steps.
Server-facing configuration
S5248F-1
S5248F-2
interface ethernet 1/1/3
description "R730xd-03 p1"
no shutdown
switchport mode trunk
switchport access vlan 1
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1612-1616
spanning-tree port type edge
interface ethernet 1/1/4
description "R730xd-04 p1"
no shutdown
switchport mode trunk
switchport access vlan 1
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1612-1616
spanning-tree port type edge
interface ethernet 1/1/3
description "R730xd-03 p2"
no shutdown
switchport mode trunk
switchport access vlan 1
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1612-1616
spanning-tree port type edge
interface ethernet 1/1/4
description "R730xd-04 p2"
no shutdown
switchport mode trunk
switchport access vlan 1
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1612-1616
spanning-tree port type edge
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7.5 Switch pair uplink configuration
Configure the VLT port channel and interfaces connecting to the ACI leaf switches. Configure and enable
uplink failure detection (UFD).
Uplink configuration
S5248F-1
S5248F-2
interface port-channel 100
description "ACI connection"
no shutdown
switchport mode trunk
switchport access vlan 1
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1612-1616
vlt-port-channel 100
interface ethernet 1/1/55
description "ACI connection leaf 1 eth
1/1"
no shutdown
channel-group 100 mode active
no switchport
interface ethernet 1/1/56
description "ACI connection leaf 2 eth
1/1"
no shutdown
channel-group 100 mode active
no switchport
uplink-state-group 1
enable
downstream ethernet1/1/3-1/1/4
upstream port-channel 100
interface port-channel 100
description "ACI connection"
no shutdown
switchport mode trunk
switchport access vlan 1
switchport trunk allowed vlan 1612-1616
vlt-port-channel 100
interface ethernet 1/1/55
description "ACI connection leaf 1 eth
1/2"
no shutdown
channel-group 100 mode active
no switchport
interface ethernet 1/1/56
description "ACI connection leaf 2 eth
1/2"
no shutdown
channel-group 100 mode active
no switchport
uplink-state-group 1
enable
downstream ethernet1/1/3-1/1/4
upstream port-channel 100
Note: UFD is a feature that disables downlink interfaces due to uplink interface failures. Configuration of UFD
is a best practice to prevent downstream resources from sending traffic to a switch with failed uplinks.
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